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Perfect Stranger Posted 11 years ago
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Do you ever use /despondency/ ? If so, how?

Dear Users,

I was wondering if you often use the word despondency and if so, how?

Are the following sentences OK? I find it hard to use this word in a natural way.

1) Having worked there for a year I've felt an increasing feeling of despondency.
2) Despondency is a kind of feeling that is similar to discouragement, dispiritment or disheartenment.
3) I feel despondent towards my wife.

By the way, is there any difference between despondency and despondence?

Thanks
  

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It's a kind of "middle tier" word that is not in frequent use in daily conversation, but is not noticeably unusual either. The use of "despondency" itself is correct in (1) and (2). "felt a feeling" seems faintly repetitious to me (I wonder why not juts "felt despondent"), and I wonder whether the tenses in (1) are exactly in harmony.

— GPY

  • It's a kind of "middle tier" word that is not in frequent use in daily conversation, but is not noticeably unusual either.
  • The use of "despondency" itself is correct in (1) and (2).
  • "felt a feeling" seems faintly repetitious to me (I wonder why not juts "felt despondent"), and I wonder whether the tenses in (1) are exactly in harmony.
  • (3) does not sound quite right to me.
  • Perfect Stranger By the way, is there any difference between despondency and despondence?
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It's a kind of "middle tier" word that is not in frequent use in daily conversation, but is not noticeably unusual either.

The use of "despondency" itself is correct in (1) and (2). "felt a feeling" seems faintly repetitious to me (I wonder why not juts "felt despondent"), and I wonder whether the tenses in (1) are exactly in harmony.

(3) does not sound quite right to me.
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